Yak burgers. Sky-high burpees. Loud cheese.
There's good reason Lhasa translates as "place of the gods". Enthroned at an elevation of over 3,600 meters on the crown of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the ancient city beckons pilgrims and seekers from every corner of our planet who come questing for the world beyond ours.
The 12-minute movie won the Best Sound Design Award at the 15th Beijing International Film Festival's ReelFocus section, a competitive category aimed at spotlighting young talents, in late April. This year, the category received 1,280 short films vying for 11 awards.
Go for Rural Entrepreneurship, a documentary that touches on themes of modernization, rural vitalization, and food security, premiered on Thursday in Beijing.
Since its launch in 2018, the Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, in May, has become an integral part of the capital city's cultural landscape attracting both art professionals and members of the public who seldom go to galleries.
Forty international bloggers from abroad have engaged in the Follow Xu Xiake's Footsteps to Explore Ninghai tour since early May, experiencing the cultural treasures of Ninghai county, East China's Zhejiang province.
In a small theater in Maoming city in South China's Guangdong province, Cantonese Opera echoes through the air, the rhythmic beat of drums, the melodic instruments and the soaring voices of performers filling the atmosphere with life and energy. This was the world Li Junsheng was born into.
When it comes to Beijing, what first come to mind are the grand imperial landmarks — such as the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, and the dozens of other magnificent temples and structures, big and small, peppered throughout the capital. But dig a little deeper and set your sights a little further afield, and you'll find countless hidden gems sitting in plain sight, both inside and outside city limits.
The First International Travel Services Conference will be held from Oct 16 to 19 in Sanya, Hainan province, its organizer, the China Association of Travel Services, announced on Wednesday at a news conference in Beijing.
The dreamy works of Chen Xuefang, a ceramic artist from Pucheng county, Nanping, Fujian province, caught the attention of people visiting Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing. The teacups and small decoration sculptures used for a tea set assume translucent texture and a pale green-white glaze, called qingbai. Some of the wares are delicate and as thin as a piece of paper.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that the 9th International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan province, from May 28 to June 3.
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